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| The Decemberists – Isn't It a Lovely Night? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree. I think they are singing to each other from afar (isn't a stretch since later in the album Margaret sings to William while captured from afar), she in the location they shared in "The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)" and he trapped with his mother. Then in the next song ("The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid") he bargains with his mother to be let go and join Margaret. |
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| The Decemberists – The Rake's Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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or at all. Isaiah shows up as a ghost in "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge)". How could he be dead with his sisters, and yet alive (as William) chasing after The Rake to save Margaret. I agree it seems like there should be some link between the two, but I can't see how this is it. |
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| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Well... "rake" was Old English slang for a man who is morally loose. so, yes, the song is his introduction to the story (and his back-story). I found it slightly confusing that Colin Meloy voiced both the hero (William) and the villain (The Rake) (and the narrator, I suppose). "The Rake's" now-dead children's ghosts turn up in "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge)" to distract him from his conquest and end up saving Margaret (William is able to overtake him in his distraction). His motive is that he's a "rake" and has a unquenchable sex drive (yet another "hazard of love"). so after his wife had kids, there was too much responsibility and he wasn't quenched. After his 4th child and wife die in childbirth, he kills his other 3 kids to be free of them and then searches for another woman to satisfy him (and finds Margaret).
granted this doesn't really belong here, but in the comments for "The Rake" |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the predatory wasp is actually the Tarantula Hawk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk) It is a wasp (not a hawk as its name implies) that lays its egg into a living tarantula. When the larvae hatch they grow inside the still living tarantula feeding on it until it dies. These predatory wasps (;-)) are known to live in the mid-west, and therefore most likely, the Palisades of Illinois. |
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